Lightning delayed and rescheduled several games last weekend, with some still in process. Here’s the latest:
• Burlingame leads 12-0 with 3 minutes remaining in the second quarter of a game that will resume at 5 p.m. tonight in Hartford.
• Lyndon squeezed past Olpe in a 27-25 win, in a game that didn’t start until 10:30 and was finished around 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
• Osage City came up short in a 48-20 loss to Council Grove. The game was rescheduled and played Saturday in Osage City.

TOPEKA—The Kansas Volleyball Association released their fourth-week rankings Oct. 2. The rankings reflect school reclassifications released Sept. 27 for 2013 enrollments, and for the first time acknowledge the Class 4A split approved by Kansas State High School Activities Association members last summer.

With the split, the Santa Fe Trail (16-2) volleyball team jumped from the sixth ranked team in Class 4A to the top-ranked team in Class 4A Division II.

OSAGE CITY—The Osage City Council continued discussion concerning peak overflow to the city sewer system, which has lead to health and environmental violations in previous years.

The council discussed challenges and progress with Jeff Barnard, Burns and McDonnell, the primarily focused on the northeast part of the city. Overflow in that area led the city being levied by the Environmental Protection Agency in May 2012, to which it followed up with smoke testing in September 2012 to address problems.

LYNDON—Two realistic, but illegal speed limit signs were found posted Sept. 27 north of 229th street on Surf Drive in Pomona Heights, in Vassar. The signs were removed by the county bridge office, and later reinstalled on private property.

“We tried to explain to him that you can’t post them. Well, he turned right around and put them back in the ground,” said Glen Tyson, Osage County bridge supervisor.

The two signs are four feet high, with a speed limit less than what was legally posted.

OSAGE CITY—Osage County Parks and Recreation will host the first Osage County Tailgate Showdown Saturday, Oct. 5, at Jones Park, in Osage City. The showdown is an offshoot of the city’s annual Smoke in the Spring State Barbeque Competition geared toward residents and natives of Osage County.

“It is a collaboration between the chamber and parks and recreation to create a fall event for Osage County,” said Osage City Parks and Recreation Director Corey Linton. “I really encourage everyone to come out and try it.”

LYNDON—Lyndon’s Fall Fest will be celebrated from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 5. Events will be held downtown and on the courthouse lawn.

“We’ve had a pretty steady demand for the Fall Fest,” said Lyndon Mayor Brandon Smith. “Lots of people asked when we were going to have it again. What’s exciting is how more people want to get involved in it.”

Events include a pancake feed from 7 to 10 a.m., swap meet from 8 to noon, an open house at Cotton O’Neil Clinic from 10 to 11 a.m., and a craft fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

OSAGE CITY—The Kansas Department of Transportation revealed the latest updates to its plans for Osage County at a public meeting Thursday, focusing on an extensive overhaul to State Highway 31 and the U.S. 75 and K-31/K-268 roundabout.

TOPEKA—Untreated lake water moving through the Carbondale Water Treatment Plant prompted the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to issue a boil water advisory last week for Carbondale and Rural Water District No. 5, which receives water from Carbondale and serves parts of Osage, Shawnee, Douglas and Franklin Counties.